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...As ever: thoughts, tips, insincere praise, finely-crafted insults, whatever you’ve got, send them along to alan.beattie@ft.com....
...Alan David is particularly funny as the quietly seething Mr Pugh, dreaming of poisoning his nagging wife (Cleo Sylvestre)....
...Gagarin’s launch took place amid deepest Soviet secrecy while Alan Shepard’s, three weeks later, was a glaringly public affair....
...In studying history, this lack of competition cannot be emphasised too strongly.” — Henry D Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois...
...He was immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s novel The Right Stuff and a subsequent film of the same name....
...In The Permissive Society (2009), the academic Alan Petigny argued that premarital sex in the US took off during a kind of “Long Fifties” between the war and 1965....
...In the wrong hands, it is more Colonel Sanders than Tom Wolfe. It can be an awkward statement to make....
...IJ Good, the mathematician who worked alongside Alan Turing in the code-breaking team at Bletchley Park during the second world war and was a pioneer of AI, was one of the first to grasp the full significance...
...Tom Wolfe ruthlessly parodied their arrival as the welcoming of the “White Gods” from Europe in From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), in which he painted a picture of “non-bourgeois worker housing” being foisted...
...Their lives together and their rivalries were vividly captured in Tom Wolfe’s book, The Right Stuff, later made into a film....
...Alan Wolfe, the eminent political scientist, rated her among the two or three most important Americans of the latter half of the 20th century, even though “every idea she ever had was scatterbrained, dangerous...
...According to Alan Gilbert, ever-enterprising maestro of the Philharmonic, “the word biennial evokes ambitious visual-art presentations from Venice to Miami to Manhattan’s East Side, and, in fact, our goal...
...The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts. It taught me that the world is entirely the opposite of what I thought it was. When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...Additional reporting by Alan Rappeport in New York...
...From Mr Alan Wolfe....
...Faulks didn’t see the funny side of things, so runner-up Alan Titchmarsh received the prize that year instead. The award excludes erotic literature....
...FedEx cut its full-year profit forecast from between$6.35 and $6.85 a share to between $6.25 and $6.75, but Ed Wolfe, at Wolfe Trahan, wrote in a note to clients that those numbers were likely to be still...
...In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe duplicates this obnoxious elitism in his “master of the universe”, Sherman McCoy....
...On a recent morning on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of private equity, was wedged into a booth at the Three Guys diner, mulling an investment that did not pan out....
...Given “pretty free reign” by his client, Alan Wardle, Holl squeezed a sharply angled, brass-coated tower on to a tight plot at the shore of Lake Champlain....
...I really admire Tom Wolfe as a writer and as a reporter and his notion of the “man in full”: I really tried hard to portray these guys warts and all....
...Alan Van Noord, a Pennsylvania civil servant with a laid-back demeanour, makes an unlikely business partner for some of the world’s most powerful financiers....
...And a distinctive Jamesian voice also rings through Alan Hollinghurst’s winning novel, The Line of Beauty (Picador £16.99), which garnered universally positive reviews....
...All possessed what Tom Wolfe, the writer, called the “Right Stuff”. Kings, queens, governments and literary agents have always been able to recognise the right stuff....
...Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan is the most powerful man on Wall Street, but his $172,000 salary would be regarded as a derisory bonus for an inexperienced bond trader....
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